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Dear reader,

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Intro

Honestly, I really like Android. Everything is always synchronised. Even the pictures you take with your mobile phone. You don’t have to carry about back-up’s anymore! Quite handy! (In this post, I will not talk about the privacy and the security you have to take into account! But I really recommend you to read something about Google’s 2 Step Verification.) Anyway, if the synchronisation on your android phone is active, you can find your photo’s online via photos.google.com.

Photo WebApp

Google’s new Photo Web Application is recently renewed… I don’t know the right release date, but I suppose it’s since yesterday or the day before. Google is rolling out the new features and I received them today. The first thing I saw was the new searchbar which allows you to search through your photos. You even don’t need to tag them before you’re querying your photos. You can use searchterms like:

Colours

Locations

Things

Dates

Types (Photos, Videos,..)

As I’m also designing and developing websites, this feature is very helpful when you need to find some pictures for your design. If you need a certain colour, you can search that color and find some nice pictures that matches your design.

Please can you leave a comment on this post if you know other things I can query my pictures?

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It has been quite a while since I wrote something very very stupid on my blog.
But after my previous blogpost (about the bug in Google translate) I saw it really works (because they solved the bug) when writing articles.
(Honestly, I never got confirmed they solved the bug due to the article I wrote 😉 )

This being said, in this post I’ll talk about a missing change for Google in their Google Calendar App.

As we all know Google wants to be very predictive. But in my opinion they could improve their Calendar App with the following changes.

What we have today…

Today, when we create a new event in the calendar:

You first have to create a subject/title.

Second, you need to determine a location.

The following printscreen will illustrate it.

This is how Google Calendar looks today.

What should we have tomorrow…

to become more predictive:

First determine a subject/title of the event.

Second, choose the guest you’d like to invite.

Next, you’ll be able to choose a location depending the guests you’re inviting. (But you should still be able to choose another location than one predefined in the list.)

This is how Google needs to become for better predictability.

But what’s the difference?

Well, in Google Contacts you can create different addresses for each contact you have. By default you can choose a “Work” and a “Home” location. But you can also create custom locations like I did (in the following printscreen).

A Google Contact with multiple addresses.

An example

I would like to Invite the Google Head of UX Research Jhilmil Jain of a meeting.

You provide a subject like “Meeting Google Calender UX” and as guest I provide the name “Jhilmil Jain” (Who’s already in my Google Contacts).
Now Google can propose 6 different locations that may be relevant because they already knows my addresses and those from Jain: